https://haraldbeharie.com HaraldBeharie Mon, 08 Apr 2024 14:32:34 +0000 https://haraldbeharie.com en https://haraldbeharie.com/Home Tue, 13 Aug 2019 13:47:13 +0000 HaraldBeharie https://haraldbeharie.com/Home &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; HARALD BEHARIE&nbsp; https://haraldbeharie.com/UNDERSANG-2024 Sun, 12 Mar 2023 20:13:39 +0000 HaraldBeharie https://haraldbeharie.com/UNDERSANG-2024 Undersang is an outdoor work by Harald Beharie in collaboration with Karoline Bakken Lund, Veronica Bruce and Christian Beharie, which takes shape as a collective walk and a performance in the forest.&nbsp; Undersang is a tapestry of opulent configurations soaked in a shimmer of extravagant gestures. Here mythologies, national romantic ideals and science fiction converge, revealing a world of ancient powers. Placing Afro-Nordic diasporic narratives in the forest, Undersang weaves conceptions of blackness, nature and dissonance as a strategy of empowerment. Sparking questions about what it means to belong. Undersang is queer ecology in the making, using extravagance &nbsp;and romanticism as a site for refusal, for reclaiming time. Looking beyond the idea of ownership, it seeks a fertile ground for healing, for lament and for celebration.«I don't know if the performative actually transforms society, but this performance at least gives me faith in the potential of art in the world.» Julie Amundsen - Scenekunst.no Oslo, 02.06.2024&nbsp;As the intensity increases, the pace builds, and the choreography becomes more technical and narrative, Harald Beharie's work becomes simply beautiful, inexplicably moving. Katia Tamburello - Chaos Cultura Geneve, 08.09.2024&nbsp;The project received the Norwegian Critics prize for 2024. An indoor version was created in 2025 as a commissioned piece for the Munch Museum, Oslo.&nbsp; Choreography Harald Beharie Sculptures Karoline Bakken Lund and Veronica Bruce Composer, sound Christian Beharie Performers Loan Ha, Mariama Slåttøy, Carlisle Sienes, Jens Trinidad, Nosizwe Baqwa, Amie Mbye and Harald Beharie Faciliatator/ DramaturgDeise Nunes Outside eye Hooman Sharifi ProducerMariana Suikkanen Gomes DistributionDamien Valette Co-producers Black Box Teater(Oslo)Dansens Hus (Oslo) BIT (Bergen) Rosendal Teater (Trondheim) RAS (Sandnes) TOU (Stavanger) Thank you to: Sudesh Adhana, Gabrielle Bozee, Marie Cole, Amika Elfendi, Pål Græsvik,&nbsp; Gloria Kapako, Erick Kelly, Torbjørn Kolbeinsen, Nicolas Jara Marthinsen, Magne Misje, Sudesh Adhana, Faduma Mohamud, Lara Okafor, Siham Ouazzif, Ellen Palmeira, Sven Undheim og Charlott Utzig&nbsp; <img width="3626" height="2432" width_o="3626" height_o="2432" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e647d56887a1e4d7e4c37cdcafac3a331b4203edaa49c6e9515c997f209a9d59/AC719B04-E780-4B86-8C61-2A769185CAF4.JPG" data-mid="249386320" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e647d56887a1e4d7e4c37cdcafac3a331b4203edaa49c6e9515c997f209a9d59/AC719B04-E780-4B86-8C61-2A769185CAF4.JPG" />Photo: Chai Saidi&nbsp; <img width="3000" height="2143" width_o="3000" height_o="2143" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7d2a7d2767e4fa6d520786642d8364f59aee50c6e0b87fb4fa8cbe44e00cf503/HaraldB_JulieHrncirova_performance-0754.jpg" data-mid="212275831" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7d2a7d2767e4fa6d520786642d8364f59aee50c6e0b87fb4fa8cbe44e00cf503/HaraldB_JulieHrncirova_performance-0754.jpg" />Photo: Julie Hrncirova 2026&nbsp; Ravnedans, Kristiansand (NO) 18. june&nbsp; Santarcangelo festival, Santarcangelo (indoor) (IT) 10 - 12 July 2025 La Batie, Geneve (CH) 6 - 8 September Saal Biennale (EE) - 26 - 27 August Teaterformen, Hannover(DE)- 21 &amp; 22 June Munch Museum, Oslo (NO)-(Indoor version - commision) 14 JuneUrb Festival, Kiaasma, Helsinki (FI) - 5 june Hangö Teatertreff, Hangö (FI)- 6- 7 June&nbsp; 2024&nbsp;BIT - teatergarasjen, Bergen 24 - 25 October Bodø Biennale, Bodø 7.September RAS &amp; Tou Scene, Stavanger 21 - 22. august&nbsp; Rosendal Teater, Trondheim&nbsp; 8 - 9. June&nbsp;Dansens Hus &amp; Black Box Teater 30. may - 02. June (PREMIERE)&nbsp; https://haraldbeharie.com/SWEET-SPOT-2026 Mon, 08 Apr 2024 14:32:34 +0000 HaraldBeharie https://haraldbeharie.com/SWEET-SPOT-2026 Sweet Spot unfolds as a state of constant&nbsp; transformation, a collective body emerging, syncopating, leaking and dissolving. Taking the Norwegian term leikarring (play ring/folk circle dance) as a point of departure, a contorted chain dance spirals into a never ending whirlwind. Channeling the vagabond, the red shoes that never stop dancing and the legends of the fiddler that cannot stop playing, softly unhinged bodies slip between abandon and care, between eruption and suspension. Drawing from the medieval image of the hellmouth, the threshold of life and death, and an inbetween place where conflicting moods arise, the performance expands into a restless terrain where bodies contort, dilate and joyfully collapse together with reappearing songs and screeches. Moving beyond treating folk as a static idea and fixed cultural identity, the work inhabits traditional music through distortion. Here, Nordic folklore is bent, stretched, and disoriented and folk becomes a site of negotiation of bodies and reimagination. A tender and alluring current where dances and fleeting fictions surface and submerge. “This creation immerses the audience in a new dimension of strangeness, at once dreamlike and deeply embodied.” -&nbsp;Marie-Pierre Genecand - Le Temps, Lausanne, 09.03.26,&nbsp;“Over the course of its duration,... Sweet Spot conjugates agony and ecstasy, reuniting heaven and hell.”&nbsp; -&nbsp;Zachary Whittenburg,&nbsp; C-print , Stockholm 15.02.26 Sweet Spot is the last part of a trilogy of works which includes the solo piece Batty Bwoy (2022) playing with the fictions surrounding the queer body and the group work Undersang (2024) that takes shape as a collective ritual in the forest. Together, these works plunge into how the body can be a site of ambivalence. Where identity and power are constantly negotiated and mutating, unraveling a porous and unstable surface opening up for rituals, new ways of togetherness and uncanny play.&nbsp; Beharie’s practice and choreographies often emerge in the tension between the everyday and the extreme, the banal and the sacred, playing with transformation as a continuous principle, for both the body and the spaces they move through. At the core lies a desire to challenge how we sense reality. Their works explore how queerness and the body can act as a medium and a site for revolt and dissolution.&nbsp; For this work, they expand their continuous collaboration and research with visual artist Karoline Bakken Lund. Working together since 2017, they examine the poetic and physical possibilities of collapse, where objects, textures and bodies drift between support and obstruction, cultivating porous visual and social landscapes. In Sweet Spot they also collaborate for the first time with light designer Ingeborg Staxerud Olerud and composer and musician Ingvild Langgård. *Leikarring - A leikarring is a traditional Norwegian chain dance where participants hold hands and move together in simple, rhythmic patterns, often accompanied by folk song or fiddle music. *Hardanger fiddle - The Hardanger fiddle is a traditional Norwegian fiddle with extra resonating strings. Performer Irene Theisen won the Hedda prize for “best performance” in 2026 for her performance in Sweet Spot.&nbsp;DATES:&nbsp; Dansens Hus, Oslo January 23 - 25, &nbsp;2026&nbsp;Side Step Festival - Zodiak, Helsinki (FI) 30 - 31. January 2026&nbsp;RAS, Sandnes (NO) 05. February 2026 MDT, Stockholm(SE) 14 - 15. February 2026 BIT-Teatergarasjen , Bergen(NO) 27 - 28 . February 2026 Arsenic, Lausanne (CH) 4 - 6. March 2026 SPRING festival, Utrecht (NL) 16 - 17 May 2025 Rosendal Teater, Trondheim &nbsp;, (NO) 27 - 28 . May &nbsp;2026&nbsp;Theaterformen, Braunsweg (site specific version) (DE) - 27 - 28. June 2026 Festival Actoral 09 - 10. October 2026&nbsp; <img width="5504" height="8256" width_o="5504" height_o="8256" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4c102f64fbb8777d21992299e1657c14255cde3245f7cb22eef3ac78331e9c8c/Sweet-Spot---Bart-Grietens-231.jpg" data-mid="249271601" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4c102f64fbb8777d21992299e1657c14255cde3245f7cb22eef3ac78331e9c8c/Sweet-Spot---Bart-Grietens-231.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2143" width_o="3000" height_o="2143" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/53bc3aac758f2308f90d222a060a53b0d392167619438a9623065dcdaa094d77/SweetSpot_JH_Dansenshus-5262-2.jpg" data-mid="244773957" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/53bc3aac758f2308f90d222a060a53b0d392167619438a9623065dcdaa094d77/SweetSpot_JH_Dansenshus-5262-2.jpg" /> Concept &amp; Choreography Harald Beharie Close collaborator/artistic research Karoline Bakken Lund PerformersLoan Ha, Carlisle Sienes, Harald Beharie, Amie Mbye, Irene Theisen and Ester Thunander&nbsp;Set-design/sculpture &amp; Costume Karoline Bakken Lund Light design Ingeborg Staxrud Olerud Music supervisor&nbsp; Ingvild Langgård&nbsp;Musician&nbsp; Ester Thunander&nbsp;Music by:&nbsp;Ester Thunander, Ingvild Langgård, Carlisle Sienes and traditional Norwegian music.&nbsp;Sound design Gunnar InnværFaciliatator/ DramaturgDeise Faria Nunes Intimacy Coordinator Lexie Koren Producer Kristina Melbø Valvik Distribution/touring Damien Valette Choreography assistant/outer eye Martin Lervik/ Hooman Sharifi&nbsp; Co-producers Dansens Hus, Oslo, Rosendal Teater (Trondheim) , RAS (Sandnes), BIT Bergen Internasjonale Teater (Bergen), Arsenic, Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain (Lausanne), SPRING festival (Utrecht), Zodiak - Centre for New Dance, Helsinki (Helsinki), MDT (Stockholm) Residency supportFabbrica Europa (Firenze), Kaserne(Basel) and Kilden (Kristiansand)Supported byNorwegian Art Council and Kristiansand Municipality&nbsp; Touring technicians Tor Erik Høydahl Eriksson, Maja Sundt and Sander Sædberg&nbsp; Thanks to Hanna Siwaly, Sven Bartolomeo,Santos Cronstrøm, Marielle Sundt-Haugen, Annikken Wilhelmsen, Tore Lund, Hooman Sharifi og Torbjørn Kolbeinsen.&nbsp; Norwegian Traditional Music (slåtter)Håvards sorg after Håvard Gibøen, after Knut Buen Tussebrureferdi på Vossevangen, after Anne Hytta,&nbsp; after Knut Buen Soteroen after Vidar Lande Dolkaren after Johanne Flottorp (after Salve Austenå) Sammetsgrunden by Ester Thunander Springar på nedstilt after Håvard Gibøen, after Knut Buen Photo Julie Hrncirova &amp; Bart Grietens&nbsp; https://haraldbeharie.com/BATTY-BWOY-2022 Tue, 13 Aug 2019 13:47:13 +0000 HaraldBeharie https://haraldbeharie.com/BATTY-BWOY-2022 Batty Bwoy is a solo performance in collaboration with Karoline Bakken Lund, Veronica Bruce, Jassem Hindi and Ring van Mobius. Batty Bwoy is a solo which doesn’t start with a question, or a critique, but from a place of play and desire, entangled in violence and charming cruelty. Through a reappropriation of the Jamaican term “Batty Bwoy” (literally, butt boy), slang for a queer person, the work twists and turns the myths of the Black queer body unfolding vulnerable possibilities in an interplay of consciousness and naivety. Scrutinizing the absurdity of a queer monstrosity, Batty Bwoy articulates the porosity of bodies and languages, their mouths swallowing and regurgitating the corporeal fictions projected onto their skins. &nbsp; In an odyssey of droning prog-rock, Batty Bwoy attacks and embraces sedimented narratives around the fear of the queer body as a perverse and deviant figure. The expression "Batty Bwoy" is used to evoke an ambivalent being that exists in the threshold of the precarious body, liberated power, joy, and batty energy! The work has found inspiration in mythologies, disgusting stereotypes, feelings, and fantasies of the queer body and identities, homophobic dancehall lyrics, 70s Giallo films from Italy, resilient “gully queens,” and queer voices in Norway and Jamaica that have visited and taken part of the process. The project is a co-production with Dansens Hus, Oslo and RAS, Sandnes and premiered January 20th, 2022.&nbsp; CHOREOGRAPHY/PERFORMERHarald Beharie SCENOGRAPHY/SCULPTURE Karoline Bakken Lund and Veronica Bruce MUSICRing van Möbius&nbsp; SOUND DESIGNER&nbsp; Jassem Hindi&nbsp; OUTSIDE EYE&nbsp; Ines Belli and Hooman Sharifi&nbsp;CO-PRODUCERS Dansens Hus and RAS SUPPORTED BY Norwegian Art council, Fond for lyd og bilde,FFUK, Sandnes Kommune and Tou Scene. PHOTO Julie Hrncirova (1) Margot Sparkes (2),&nbsp;Pietro Bertora (3)&nbsp; Thanks to Tobias Leira, Torbjørn Kolbeinsen, Ingeborg Staxrud Olerud and&nbsp;Phillip McLeod. The project won the Hedda prize for best dance performance 2023 and was nominated for the Norwegian Critics Association Prize 2022.&nbsp;DATES Upcoming: 2025 Artdanthé - Theatre Vanves, Vanves(FR) - 22. March 2025Festival Le Grand Bain, Robauix(FR) - 24. March 2025 STUK, Leuven(BE) - 27. March 2025 Bora Bora, Aarhus(DK) - 01 - 03. April 2025 Dansehallerne, Copenhagen(DK) - 8 - 9 April 2025FTA, Montreal (CA) - 28, 29, 30 and 31st May 2025 Theatre de la commune, Aubervilliers (FR) 7. june 2025 Serralves, Porto (PT) 18. October 2025 Festival Euro- scene, Leipzig (DE) - 8 - 9 November 2025 Drama Queer Festival Bratislava(SK) - 22 October 2025 Co-festival, Ljubljana (SI)) - 24 &nbsp;November 2025 &nbsp; 2024Nordwind Festival, Hamburg(DE) 06 - 07 December Sophiensæle, Berlin (DE) 21 - 23 November Emergentia Festival, ADC Pavillion Geneve (CH) 08 -09 November Fierce Festival, Birmingham (UK) 16 - 17 October Festival Actoral, Marseille (FR)08 - 09 October Fabbrica Europa, Firenze (IT) 13 - 14. September Theaterfestival Basel, Kaserne, Basel (CH) 30- 31. august Dansstationen, Malmø (SE) 26. august Skopje Pride 13 June Switchover Festival, Tartu (EE) 21. MayICE HOT, Oslo&nbsp; 14 &amp; 15 Feburary 2023 Side Step Festival, Helsinki, Finland 09 -11 FebruaryDonau Festival, Krems, Austria 28,29,30 April MDT, Stockholm Sweden 05- 06 MaySpring Utrecht 26-27 May Dansens Hus, Oslo 23- 25 June Centrale Fies 02 July Santarcangelo Festival 15-16 July Impulstanz 24,25,26, 27th July Vitlycke 02. September Arendal på Skeiva 08. SeptemberSalmon Festival, Barcelona dates 16 -17 September Backslash Festival, Gessnerallee 25 - 26 November 2022 Dansens Hus, Oslo 20 - 23. January RAS - Sandnes 17 February Ice Hot, Helsinki (pitching session) 2 July Ravnedans, Kristiansand 07 July &nbsp;RAS, Sandnes - 28 August Teater Innlandet, Hamar 04 September Rosendal Teater- Trondheim 29 -30 September Oktoberdans - BIT Bergen 23 -24 October Les Urbaines, Lausanne Switzerland 02-04 December <img width="5000" height="3335" width_o="5000" height_o="3335" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/79c2188503ab25b206232a97b677b802d809249e38c3cf17d283fca589e842e6/JulieHrncirova.JPG" data-mid="132630944" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/79c2188503ab25b206232a97b677b802d809249e38c3cf17d283fca589e842e6/JulieHrncirova.JPG" /><img width="2500" height="1786" width_o="2500" height_o="1786" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/77f585aaa94d6c75f3983dc22f422a0db9135c91037620e0239ab3db6408929e/52658346629_b7d78d9b35_o.jpg" data-mid="181298541" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/77f585aaa94d6c75f3983dc22f422a0db9135c91037620e0239ab3db6408929e/52658346629_b7d78d9b35_o.jpg" /><img width="1575" height="2362" width_o="1575" height_o="2362" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3418bb8c063e77e79d362e9a7eeaee1d5397ab5158d271cf7973de9f73c0da0e/batty-bwoy-26.jpg" data-mid="185458515" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3418bb8c063e77e79d362e9a7eeaee1d5397ab5158d271cf7973de9f73c0da0e/batty-bwoy-26.jpg" />